Eli Broad Quotes
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You're a smaller fish in the U.S. There's just so many more TV shows, and actors, and actresses. Where as in the U.K. you're in a much smaller market there.
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I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
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I know that I was put on this planet to be an athlete.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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I'd like President Bush to get a gun in his hands. I'll go with him. I can't think of anything better than to die in place 's just beginning their lives.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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The imperfections in my family made me learn to deal with things on my own and solve problems for myself.
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Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.
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Both European and American historians have done away with any conceptual limits on what in the past needs and deserves investigating. The result, among other things, has been a flood of works on gender history, black history, and ethnic history of all kinds.
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I follow cool. When I went up to see Steve Jobs, I said, 'The party's at this guy's house.'
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Celebrities have a platform, and people listen to them. And there's a lot of people that we are able to touch, who aren't watching activists and aren't watching the news, that are watching what celebrities say.
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But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.
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The unions no longer control the education agenda of the Democratic Party.
